Purpose:

An amendment numbered 1 printed in House Report numbered 108-407 to make technical changes to the text of H.R. 975 as passed by the House, which consist of the following: (1) revising the year of the short title (and subsequent references thereto) from 2003 to 2004 and a Code of Federal Regulations reference from2002 to 2003; (2) amending section 1001 to make the reenactment of Chapter 12 retroactive to the date on which Chapter 12 was last in effect; (3) renumbering titles XIV and XV as titles XV and XIV, respectively, to clarify the measure's overall effective date; (4) correcting an erroneous drafting instruction in section 1201; and (5) adding a new provision (section 1502) that corrects statutory cross-references in the Bankruptcy Code and the Securities Investment Protection Act with respect to a provision of the Bankruptcy Code amended by H.R. 975.